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A Memorial of Mrs. Margaret Breckinridge

A Memorial of Mrs. Margaret Breckinridge

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A
MEMORIAL
OF
MRS. MARGARET BRECKINRIDGE.

IN TWO PARTS.

Part I. Memoir, and Funeral Sermon.
Part II. Letters to her surviving Children.

PHILADELPHIA:
WILLIAM S. MARTIEN.
1839.

Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1839, by

WILLIAM S. MARTIEN,

in the office of the Clerk of the District Court, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

CONTENTS

PART I.
Page.
Introduction, 13
Chapter I.
Life of Mrs. Breckinridge, 17
Chapter II.
Additional Illustrations of the Life and Character of Mrs. Breckinridge, 35
Her Religious Character, 42
Her dedication to the work of Foreign Missions, 46
Her Sacrifices for the Church of God, 47
Her Last Sickness and Death, 54
Chapter III.
Closing Reflections, 61
SUBMISSION:
A Sermon—by the Rev. A. Alexander, D.D. 69
PART II.
LETTERS OF A GRANDFATHER.
Letter I.
Introductory, 5
Letter II.
Human Nature, 10
Letter III.
The Way of Salvation, 17
Letter IV.
The Bible, 29
Letter V.
Prayer, 37
Letter VI.
Cultivation of the Mind, 45
Letter VII.
Cultivation of the Heart and the Moral Habits, 67
Letter VIII.
Manners, 86

A

MEMOIR

OF

MRS. MARGARET BRECKINRIDGE.

"Jesus wept."

PART I.

INTRODUCTION

More than a year has now passed since Mrs. Margaret Breckinridge, the beloved subject of the following brief notices, was taken from us into the saints' everlasting rest. By that event, the little family of which she was the joy and crown, was dissolved. The surviving parent felt that God had committed to him the interesting but mournful duty of preserving the memory of so inestimable a friend. But it is long after such an event, before the mind is sufficiently tranquil to utter our thoughts and feelings without excess. The peaceable fruits of so dreadful a chastisement succeed, alas! but slowly in our intractable hearts, to the distraction of grief, and the desolation of the grave.

It was in the midst of the deepest of his sorrow, also, that the writer was hastened (by a very kind Providence, as he now sees it to have been) into the active duties of an office which left no rest for body or mind during almost an entire year. So that if his feelings had allowed the attempt at preparing a Memoir, his duty to the Church of God forbade it.

In these trying and peculiar circumstances, he was permitted to call in the aid of those honoured and venerable Friends, from whose hands, in a happier day, he had received the lovely wife of his youth. They of all others knew her best, especially from her birth to her marriage. They had done most, under God, to fit her for life's duties, and its close; and to make her "worthy to be had in everlasting remembrance." And none were judged to be so well

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